“None of our plans for our businesses has ever been dependent on selling some other part of the company. That way our sales have never been planned; we have always said that we will be happy to continue to run our companies,“ Directi CEO Bhavin Turakhia said.

The company plans to invest $110 million in Flock, Zeta, Radix and Ringo in the current financial year and the next. In 2015-16, it invested $32 million in Radix, $4 million in Zeta and $7 million in Flock.

Zeta will receive an additional $25 million, Flock will get $23 million, Ringo $44 million and Radix $18 million.

Turakhia said he had set high growth targets for Flock, Zeta and Radix and that all three are already growing faster than he had expected. As a result the company will increase its hiring target for the year, he said.

“We said two months ago that we would hire about 1,000 people this year. But we were just talking that we will have to raise that number,“ Turakhia said.

The company is yet to finalise a revised figure though, he said. Owing to its rapid growth, the company is running out of space at its rented offices and is now looking at buying a building of its own in central Bengaluru, he said.

“Every year-and-a-half we end up running out of space. I was just told that we have had to take an additional 17,000 sq ft in Bengaluru and these things sometimes happen without my even knowing it. So now I just want to buy a building of our own. I am tired of these multiple spaces,“ Turakhia said.

There aren't too many buildings of that size in the city and the company is likely to take about a year and a half to close the deal, he said.

Turakhia said that though he has already bitten off more than he could chew with the running of four businesses, he is also interested in areas such as biotechnology for any future venture.